(16 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bogotá, Colombia – 15 July 2025
1. Various meeting between U.N officials and international delegates to
discuss the Israel-Hamas war
2. Reporter holding information sheet
3. Various of briefing
4. Francesca Albanese, U.N. Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories being introduced at briefing
5. Yolanda Villavicencio, Colombian Foreign Minister (screen left), Riyad Mansour, Palestinian U.N. ambassador (center) and Francesca Albanese, U.N. Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories (right)
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, UN Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories:
"Each state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the State of Israel, military, strategic, political, diplomatic, economic relations, imports and exports, and to make sure that their private sectors, insurers, banks, pension funds, universities and other good and service providers in the supply chain do the same."
5. Various of delegates at the emergency meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yolanda Villavicencio, Colombian Foreign Minister:
"We are here not only to speak but to act with legal, ethical, and political clarity in the face of one of the most serious moral challenges of our time: the suffering of the Palestinian people."
7. U.N. Special Rapporteur Albanese walking to rostrum
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories:
"I do believe that the U.S. is totally complicit with whatever Israel is doing. But to the point, that the new administration, even in the forced displacement of the Palestinians -which has occurred for decades under the watch of everyone including the United States-, has become part of the U.S. Foreign Policy, declaring that Gaza is a construction site, is to be turned into Gaza Riviera, the Riviera of the Mediterranean Sea. And also the U.S. is clear, not only has provided weapons -it is the first arms supplier of Israel; followed by Germany, to which there is a pending case of genocide, by the way-, but it has also provided political support and is really engaging into mafia style intimidation of so many who are trying to stop it. And this is why I keep on saying this is also about breaking the silence."
9. Briefing
10. Flags of delegates participating in the meeting
11. Meeting and delegates
STORYLINE:
The United Nations’ special rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank said Tuesday that it’s time for nations around the world to take concrete actions to stop what she called the “genocide” in Gaza.
Francesca Albanese spoke to delegates from 30 countries meeting in Colombia’s capital to discuss the Israel-Hamas war and ways that nations can try to stop Israel’s military offensive in the territory. Many of the participating nations have described the violence as genocide against the Palestinians.
“Each state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the State of Israel … and ensure its private sector does the same,” Albanese said. “The Israeli economy is structured to sustain the occupation that has now turned genocidal.”
The two-day conference organized by the governments of Colombia and South Africa is being attended mostly by developing nations, although the governments of Spain, Ireland and China have also sent delegates.
Israel, which was founded in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has adamantly rejected genocide allegations against it as an antisemitic “blood libel.”
The Colombian official described Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as an affront to the international order.
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